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3. “Representatives and direct taxes shall
be apportioned among the several States which may
be included within this Union, according to their
respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding
to the whole number of free persons, including those
bound to service for a term of years, and excluding
Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons.
The actual enumeration shall be made within three
years after the first meeting of the Congress of the
United States, and within every subsequent term of
ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct.
The number of Representatives shall not exceed one
for every thirty thousand, but each State shall have
at least one Representative; and until such enumeration
shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be
entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut
five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania
eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North
Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three."[2]

4. “When vacancies happen in the representation
from any State, the executive authority thereof shall
issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.”

5. “The House of Representatives shall
choose their Speaker and other officers; and shall
have the sole power of impeachment.”

Section III.—­The Senate.

1. “The Senate of the United States shall
be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen
by the Legislature thereof, for six years, and each
Senator shall have one vote.”

2. “Immediately after they shall be assembled,
in consequence of the first election, they shall be
divided as equally as may be, into three classes.
The seats of the Senators of the first class shall
be vacated at the expiration of the second year; of
the second class, at the expiration of the fourth
year; and of the third class, at the expiration of
the sixth year; so that one-third may be chosen every
second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation,
or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature
of any State, the executive thereof may make temporary
appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature,
which shall then fill such vacancies.”

3. “No person shall be a Senator who shall
not have attained to the age of thirty years, and
been nine years a citizen of the United States, and
who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that
State for which he shall be chosen.”

4. “The Vice-President of the United States
shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no
vote, unless they be equally divided.”

5. “The Senate shall choose their other
officers, and also a President pro tempore,
in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall
exercise the office of President of the United States.”

6. “The Senate shall have the sole power
to try all impeachments. When sitting for that
purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation.
When the President of the United States is tried,
the Chief-Justice shall preside; and no person shall
be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds
of the members present.”